our upstairs bath | total gut

This is probably to biggest demo project on the house.

This is the yucky space previously known as "the bathroom". Yes, that is my husband in the reflection:) Apparently we forgot to get better "before" photos..

The dimensions of the room were 4x9--not even wide enough for a tub! So this was our first mission when planning out this tiny bath-make room for tub! 

Here's a fun little fact: this is the only room in the house that I didn't step more than 2 feet in the doorway. That's how bad this space was! 

Here's some fun demo that I luckily did not have to take part in any of it, not even clean up!

This is the view coming from the front bedroom on the house. We also did some knocking down of walls and putting up of walls in this room. Luckily it was big enough and didn't take away too much space. 

Little bro, pretending to help with the demo... 

And this is the guy who was the muscle in all of this:) 

We were able to get an extra two feet for the width of the bathroom by taking out the closet in the larger room. (I'll reveal later how we made a new closet for that room:)) 

We also decided to turn this bathroom into a Jack & Jill bathroom to eliminate the fourth door in the hallway and making it more private for our future mini Aprile's.

AND.... The Big Reveal!

^This photo is actually taken from the same angle as the one above-to give you some idea of the space. 

The vanity is made from my husband's great grandfather's work bench. It was taken apart and shrunken in size and then put back together to make it a better fit for the space. 

The vintage medicine chest I scoured Craig's List to find. The man we bought it from says it is from a mini Victorian mansion up north. I always like to hear the story behind vintage pieces I find :) 

We exposed the brick in the bathroom and also in the hall (photos to come). 

 (It still needs another layer of paint and caulking)

*we have yet to install the toilet paper holder... ugh.

Inside our teeny, but functional linen closet. We still need to cut and stain the last shelf for the top but you get the idea.

Our amazing shower! With a custom (gigantic) built in shelf for my giant bottle of conditioner..

You will never believe the deal we got on this subway tile... It cost us about $30 to tile this whole shower! We were so luck to have found those tiles in the back of Lowes! We even got enough to redo the backslash in the kitchen--way in the future:) 

This was taken from the larger bedroom on the front of the house. This was where the closet used to be. 

Well that's our new Jack & Jill bathroom:) I hope you enjoyed! 

Next project to complete: Master Bedroom.. eventually:) 

Stay tuned folks!